Important Figures
The Fuhrer of Germany during WW2
Who is Adolf Hitler?
The mass slaughter of Jewish people
What was the Holocaust
A widespread political ideology in Germany during WW2
What is Nazism?
Attacked by Japan, leading the U.S. to declare war against Japan and joining the war
What was Pearl Harbor?
Allowed the U.S. To sell, lease, or lend war materials to nations the U.S. supported
What was the Lend Lease Act?
He established a totalitarian dictatorship in Russia
Who was Joseph Stalin?
The extermination of all Jewish people in Europe
What was the Final Solution?
A system adopted by Germany, Italy, and Russia during WW2
What is fascism?
An invasion of France by the U.S. and Britain known as “Operation Overlord”
What was the Battle of Normandy?
Prohibited Americans from traveling on ships of nations at war or selling goods to countries of war
What were the Neutrality Acts?
Met secretly with FDR aboard a ship in the Atlantic off the coast of Canada
Who was Winston Churchill?
Was a 2 day period where Jewish businesses were vandalized and broken into
What was Kristallnacht?
An economic shot that impacted Germany‘s employment
What was The Great Depression?
Was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during WW2
What was the Battle of the Bulge?
An agreement between the U.S. and England to have freedom of the seas and maintain peace between all nations post WW2
What was the Atlantic Charter?
Was a general and commander and was stationed in the Philippines
Who was Douglas MacCarthur?
Jews were forced to live here segregated from the wider population
What were Ghetto’s?
What was the invasion of Poland?
A major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces of the U.S. And Australia, taking place in the Pacific ocean.
What was the Battle of the Coral Sea?
Buyers must pay cash and transport their own purchases
What was “Cash and Carry”?
Was placed in supreme command of the Allied invasion also known as “Operation Overlord”
Who was General Dwight D. Eisenhower?
“Maintaining the purity of blood ensures the survival of the German people”
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
To maintain peace by giving into Hitler’s commands
What was Appeasement?
An allied invasion into a Italian city
What is the Battle of Salerno
“… the equal right of every individual on its territory to life, liberty, and Property, religious freedom and the use of his own language.”
What was the Declaration of Human Rights?